The Prophet of the Machine Apocalypse
There is something touching about the AI engineer who quits a frontier lab because he believes the machines are going to kill us all within ten years. One imagines him striding out of the office with the solemnity of a…
The AI That Claimed to Be a Rape Survivor
From December 2024 to March 2025, users of the Reddit community r/ChangeMyView encountered people who seemed unusually articulate and persuasive. They engaged in heated discussions with these individuals, and many users developed a sense of familiarity and rapport with them,…
Colliding AI governance Narratives
For the past 4 years, public policy toward “AI” has been driven by two competing narratives. In the past two weeks, the clash between them has blown up in the faces of policy makers and AI service providers, especially Anthropic…
Defending Cyberspace: Cybersecurity and Frontier AI
The intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity has rapidly ascended to the top of the Washington policy agenda. Following the administration’s June 2, 2026, Executive Order on AI cybersecurity, the Congressional Internet Caucus recently convened a panel of industry experts,…
Anthropic Tries to Revive the “AI Pause”
Back in 2023, the Future of Life Institute issued a open letter calling to “pause giant AI experiments” before runaway AI destroyed humanity. Three years later, machine learning applications have expanded in use and capability, yet humans are still…
What Everyone Is Missing About Anthropic and the Pentagon
On February 27th, President Trump directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s technology after the company refused the Pentagon’s demand to allow lawful use of its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Much of the…
Did an AI application really “bully” a human?
There is a battle over the reputation of advanced AI applications going on in the news. Two worldviews conflict: Are we unleashing dangerous forces that threaten humanity? Or are we just making computers and software do a lot of new…
Join the Conversation: AI Governance and Global Economic Development
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 The Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech invites scholars, practitioners, students, and representatives from civil society to an essential dialogue on how AI governance shapes our global economic future. Event…
DeepSeek-OCR: China’s Answer to the U.S. Chip Ban
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would…
The Coming AI Bust
Inflated expectations, inflated assets, inflated capital investments, bad policy. It’s all got to end pretty soon. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere. They unlock your phone, correct your spelling, redesign your slide presentations, recommend videos, scan and summarize reports and papers,…